Israel says Palestinian woman shot dead in attempted attack

In accordance with the OCHA, in October eight Israelis lost their lives and 115 were wounded during the Palestinians’ attacks, many of them consistent in the use of knives against civilians.

Israeli Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said two of the Israelis were moderately wounded in the attack, the latest in almost two months of violence across the region.

Israeli soldiers clear a road after a Palestinian woman was shoot dead after she drew a knife in check point near the West Bank Palestinian town of Qalqilya, Monday, November 9, 2015. A few terrorists, killed by Israeli security forces and police either during or in the immediate aftermath of their attacks, are revered as shahids (martyrs) and have had streets and squares named in their honor.

In the H2 area of the old city, where around 500 illegal settlers reside in four settlements protected by thousands of Israeli soldiers, attacks against Palestinians have become commonplace. Behind the building sits a checkpoint into the H2 area, an area exclusively controlled by the Israeli Army and where five hundred illegal Israeli settlers reside, alongside the native Palestinian population that has, so far, resisted attempts at forcing them out.

Israeli rights group B’Tselem on Friday criticised the army for carrying out “immoral and unlawful” measures which it said hinder Palestinian freedom of movement in Hebron, including closing off the Tel Rumeida neighbourhood.

There were no clashes or attacks in the city on Saturday as troops searched for the assailants.

Media reports said a 16-year-old was seriously wounded and an 18-year-old was lightly hurt.

Israel said its forces fired at Tharwat al-Sharawi’s auto in Hebron on Friday after she tried to run over soldiers in the city.

The main reason the Palestinians don’t extradite suspects to Israel – even those believed to have murdered or attempted to murder Israelis – is concern that Mahmoud Abbas’s security forces will be seen as traitors who collaborate with Israel. The meeting with Obama is also expected to center on the Iran nuclear deal and the ongoing fight against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.

Israeli authorities claim to have a note from Rasha asking her parents to forgive her, but her parents say the handwriting did not belong to their daughter.

On the Gaza-Israel border, a Palestinian was killed by Israeli fire in a confrontation between stone-throwers and Israeli troops, Gaza health officials said.

The West Bank city of Hebron is one of the hot spots of violence.

The presidency’s statement warned against the continuing Israeli policy of arresting and shooting Palestinians “without a reason” in light of a wave of violence that flared up in the beginning of October in response to tension in al-Aqsa mosque compound where Palestinians accuse Israel of imposing more restrictions on Palestinian worshipers access to the holy site.

Multiple Associated Press photo captions yesterday obscured Palestinian attacks in Hebron Friday by vaguely referring to “three incidents” or “three assaults” without any indication as to who perpetrated what against whom.